The Colombian band I have towhich has musical successes and is touring USA As part of a tour for his fourth album, he continues to focus on Spanish: «We are very firm right now with Spanish».
«Music in Spanish is reaching where it has never gone before (…) Today is the best time to be singing in Spanish», says the vocalist and guitarist Juan Pablo Isaza in an interview with EFE by videoconference from Charlotte, North Carolina.
The band has scheduled performances in different cities in the United States such as Miami, Washington, Saint Anthony y The Angelswhere it will culminate on February 25.
«All these types of cultural encounters around the Latin community hit differently when one is far from home or when one is a foreigner, so it has been very ‘cool’ to see the impact that the tour has had here in the United States, this is the fourth time we toured here, and the growth of that community has been very evident,” Isaza continues.
Carrying a Latin ‘pop-folk’ that catapulted them to fame in 2014, the band from Bogotá highlights that a tour of the United States “is always exciting”, especially because “they are cities that are more difficult to access” largely due to language.
And although it is the fourth time that they have delighted their fans in the North American country, they continue to retain the illusion of playing in big cities like NY, Chicago, Boston, The Angels y Miami. “We are very proud to return,” they say.
What’s coming
These are the last concerts of the tour ‘If yesterday were today’but they are starting another circuit of stadiums that will take them to several countries and with which they will return home.
“The tour has not yet been announced, but for us it is a great event and we believe that people will gradually understand why.”they anticipate.
Bogota residents feel very safe after the support their EP achieved ‘Before the dawn’and without a doubt this year “new music is coming”: “We already have many advanced songs at the production level for the rest of the year, even part of next year,” says the drummer Martin Vargas.
And although “at the moment everything is secret,” they assure EFE “that there is a lot of ‘cool’ music coming.”
What has them most excited and nervous, among other things, is that they will be the first Bogota residents to fill the El Campín stadium in the Colombian capital, and not once, but twice.
«We feel very proud and at the same time very surprised that no one has done it before, but without a doubt it is a milestone for us as a band and in some way it is also a milestone for music in Bogotá because it reflects that the new projects and that the new things that are coming out of the city are being heard, so that seems very nice to us,” in the words of guitarist Juan Pablo Villamil.
New challenges
Morat still has “many, many dreams to fulfill”: “The dream at this point is to continue growing wherever it may be, but together (…) We still feel that new people are discovering our music and that impresses us,” according to Isaza.
At their recent concert in Washington they saw a group of people who didn’t know them. “They told us ‘we had no idea who you were, but from now on we are going to come to all the concerts you do,'” says the musician.
And he adds: “That’s incredible because it shows a little bit that the ceiling is as high as you want to see it.”
The future also brings challenges, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the dilemmas it is raising with the creation of songs that quickly go viral on social networks, without any type of regulation on the rights of the artists whom this technology imitates. .
In fact, Morat already has his own AI-generated song, ‘Inevitable’, by Manuel Valdezwho included the voice of Bogota residents with technology and users on social networks claimed that it was original and did not believe that it could have been created with AI.
«It is an interesting topic that gives as many headaches as it does excitement about what is happening; “We have always been very open with technological developments (…) On the one hand it is inevitable that it will continue to happen”says singer and bassist Simón Vargas, but also “there is an issue of rights that needs to be very clear.” EFE (I)
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